Gone from sunny when I put the washing on to cloudy grey and ominous.
Melbourne, eh?So, tomorrow is my first day (bar any issues).
Still feels a bit Unreal, but I’m looking forward to being around people and of course earning an income.
Huge thanks again to everyone here for your support and for my 2 guardian angel references. ❤️❤️❤️
Good luck! Remember if you get a feeling that you’re overwhelemed and can’t do the job, everyone feels like that. You’ll wake up one day and it will all click.
I’ll go you one better: If your feeling overwhelmed and like an imposter, just remember no matter how bad you f up you probably wont knock 8.5 million windows devices offline.
This is going to be my new ‘bad day benchmark’
You deserve this so much, you’ve worked so hard!
This makes me so happy for you! Yay!
Got a major case of the CBF’s today. Think I’ll go for a walk in the sun and see if that changes my mood.
Continuing on the Robin Williams trend, The World According to Garp was exactly what I needed …
He has a nice brief moment in Baron Munchausen.
I love this movie and loved the book too. 😍
I think interview went okay, but I got a bit stumped with a couple of the “give a specific example of…”. Like i don’t remember specific times I dealt with an irate client because it’s too frequent. I should have prepared better for specific examples, but otherwise I think it was okay
It’s hard when you start doing interviews. After a while you learn what questions come up frequently and start looking for examples to memorise for questions.
Eventually you’ll get interview brained and have elevator pitch answers for every question ready to go and something will happen at work and you’ll be like, ‘that’s an interview question/going on the resume’
Gratitude.
The Elvis impersonator who walked into my work today.
Having a sense of humour. I’ve needed it a bit lately!
I lost my shopping list. It’s vanished. I’m grateful that I could remember mostly what was written on there.
My purple arrived. Now I just need to wear them in properly.
I’m also grateful that NQR had some cheap cheese slices, frozen cauliflower chips and my preferred brand of toothpaste.
Looking good!
I am grateful that the cat has mostly stopped yelling and has gone into snuggle mode, although he’s still restless. He’s recovering from a stint in kitty jail (a very nice cattery).
Grateful that I can take a day off work and curl up in my pillow fort.
TW death
I’m getting sicker and still not making much headway in receiving help. Currently sorting out what the plans would be for Melbcat if I passed. That might not be immediate and I really hope it doesn’t happen but I’ve been deteriorating for a long time and will be heading in that direction without any intervention.
Like others have said, please do let us know if there’s anything we can do to help. And consider going back to emergency - maybe they can speed up a referral to a specialist? Even if you get some specialists’ names, then call them in case there’s an available appt
Please look after yourself and escalate your need for medical assistance. Wishing you all the best.
Thanks, we’re doing everything possible for that to happen. 🤞
Please let us know if we can help in any way, I’m so sorry you are going through this. Sending my love.
Thanks Spud
-hugs- I really really hope you get the help you need soon.
If you need something please feel free to ask, your health is priority.
I’m sorry to hear, I think maybe you should pop down to the Emergency Ward and get something sorted.
You shouldn’t be having to figure out how to get help while your health is deteriorating.
Is there anything we can help or do for you to get your health back on track?
Thanks, I have been to the ER repeatedly but unfortunately I’m not your usual case. The medical system can be pretty broken for anyone atypical.
I know that feeling - but go anyway. Some hospitals have a patient advocate that can help you. Do it for your kitty…
you said you were having trouble eating and drinking and was becoming dehydrated.
Get them to look after that, just treat symptoms for now
@melbaboutown @Duenan
The health care system is pretty broken for neurotypical people too. Expect long waits with a temporary blanket and bowl of porridge for those that qualify. Later, write to your MP about the lack of funds.
😮 The squeaky wheel gets the grease sometimes with health care, and you have to push and insist on receiving care and treatment. I wish I could help you somehow.
please go to emergency, please
Moon pretty
Beep Beep 🚚
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My toastie seems to be missing the ham. This is almost as disappointing as the time Red Rooster forgot to put the chicken in my wrap, leaving me with only lettuce and tomato. At least this has cheese.
Apologies, my employee Ham thought you were talking to him by name. Here is a lot of ham for compensation.
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Fruit toast with margarine and a coffee please Chef.
I know, very plain today.
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yum yum!
Can I have a toastie too?
Cheese and apple, with some onion jam, would go down a treat
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Any and all the soup you can spare, please 🤧😷
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thank you chef I will take this with me to bed and hope this will all help me recharge 🛌 🔋
Ham, cheese and tomato toastie please.
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I like that mine is fancier than Raven’s even though it’s the exact same order
I think some oats and a decaf will do me. Thank you ❤️
Ham egg bread bacon coffee x4
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so several months ago, I sought advice from this sub on ebikes, and got some great input from a few people (Calhoon? thornburywitch? taleya? I can’t remember, but they seem likely…). Just wanted to say that a few weeks ago, I bought one (a kalkhoff as recommended by, I think, Calhoon?) and it has been perfect. Affordable (to me, I recognise that is not the same for everone), low end ebike, perfect for the commute from home to work. it is SO MUCH FUN to ride.
I love her (her name is Debra, just FYI).
model: https://everybodyebikes.com.au/products/kalkhoff-endeavour-1-b?variant=44691780796568
almost a total car replacement for anything in a…say…25k radius!
Total fan of ebikes myself. I would consider a hitchable trailer for bulk shopping for your next investment. It will be mine. The 25k radius is about right for an ebike. They really are a freedom machine.
A rear rack and paneer set will carry a decent amount of cargo. Probably enough for a single person’s weekly shop.
Nah, you’re nobody without a milk crate strapped on the back. Fix it on right, and you can fit panniers as well. The only downside to the classic crate is that it’s not big enough for bulk toilet paper AND a handbag. Hence the need for a hitchable trailer as well. The best of which can be detached easily enough to use as a shopping cart inside the shop and then just hitched up and go when done. Also allows for transport of squashables like iced cake and the like - which doesn’t survive well in panniers and/or crate.
I have the ol crate but I’m eyeing off this… get a couple and I can literally use the MIK qui=ick release to tow 'em upstairs when I drop the bike off in the garage
(currently I have to unload and carry things upstairs)
Fortunately the Aldi insulated bags fit nicely inside a milk crate with room for slender handbag too. The colesworth ones are a bit wide and the ends get squashed so can’t be packed as tight. This is my go-to at present - fill up bag in shop, zip it up then sling in the crate and go. Keeps things chilled too - at least for a short distance. Also my local fish & chip shop containers also fit very nicely in an Aldi insulated bag. Which keeps them sizzling hot for the journey home. What’s not to like?
@Thornburywitch @Nath
two metric milk crates. One on either side? You win - detachable shopping cart sounds great if you can afford to accessorize. Front handle basket for squashables!
saag paneer?
@dumblederp @Nath
Squeaky cheese. Yum!
@Nath @Thornburywitch
An Australian unit of measurement that applies here is the milk crate. a bottom end attachment for a bike carrier will carry one persons weekly shop. attach with cable ties or similar. Wife sold our Yuba brand Boda-Boda cargo bike. I still commute with pedal power.
when I say car replacement, I mean if I factor in my daily exercise time etc, as an overall factor, not that it is like a car…
It could be. I moved a lot of our house on mine. :P
They open sooo much more for you, especially if you have health issues. Just having the ability to not dislocate your knee on a hill got me back in the game big time
Ungrateful thread.
Poor sleep and making little mistakes at work that I keep beating myself up for.
Ungrateful that I can’t treat myself to some goodies until tomorrow, I want them now!
FOMO :(
I’m convinced this is the only reason Amazon still exists. Although with prime day, they seem to have suspended their next and same day delivery. Everything I’ve looked at recently has said it would arrive in 3-4 days and it was a bit like “I only order from you lot because I can get things I don’t need in less than 24 hours… If you aren’t going to do that, I’ll just order it from eBay and wait an extra day…”
Ah well it’s more that I can’t afford it until tomorrow.
Ungrateful for putting myself in a grumpy mood. I should know better, but sometimes I’m my own worst enemy.
I just went to the post office today, and now another parcel is expected tomorrow when I won’t be home so I’ll have to make another trip there.
Ungrateful for my jacket with the tiny little pockets that lost my shopping list.
Decided to watch The Birdcage for some 90s nostalgia and Robin Williams. This movie could never get made today for so many reasons. Val (the son) is such a self-centered prick though.
Over at the p’s. Aunt sent through a thing to me about a pug up for adoption for the p’s last night. Grandparents had a few of them. I was young and only met one of them and he was a nice doggo.
Anyway mum’s bday is soon and she’s a little hard of hearing these days and she’s trying to decide where she’d like to go (last night I suggested the local pub). I told her about the pug this morning and she said she doesn’t want to go to the pug she wants something she can eat.
That made my morning.
WTF does FB keep trying to show me cartoons of wanking mice?
It’s all the rage now with the kids lol
I popped into coles for some Jarrah coffee. Half price by the way, saw the French vanilla and decided I needed that one too because of the Olympics even though I know I prefer the Brazilian.
I got stopped by an oldie as customary, not to ask for help with anything but just a chat. 🤷♀️
